The C-pod was in action again yesterday morning in Oakhill Road. Helen Whately, Nick Kilby, Janet Bowen -Hitchings, Mavis Cracknell and self were in attendance. So were numerous people doing door knocking and delivering literature throughout the area.
Local residents came along in sufficient numbers to keep Janet and me, who stayed on the pod, fully [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Ward’
November 8, 2009
Oakhill surgery
November 2, 2009
Driving me up the wall!
Very useful meeting this afternoon with leading Southborough residents. Subject: driving schools! Apparently there are 90 of them operating in the Southborough area. I saw 5 separate ones in as many minutes on my way home.
It would be greatly appreciated all round if there could be an agreed code of conduct on these operations. The [...]
October 31, 2009
Association dinner
Excellent attendance last night at Kingston and Surbiton Conservatives’ annual dinner.
Apart from a great meal we were treated to an amusing after dinner speech by Justine Greening MP, just coming to the end of her first term as MP for Putney. It was very appropriate as she and Helen Whately have much in common and [...]
March 10, 2009
Budget council: still highest CT in London
Conservative colleagues last week attacked the Lid Dem 3.2% rise, which would have been 4% but for the action of Boris Johnson in freezing the GLA precept at its 2008 level. This was done by pruning some of Ken’s wasteful expenditure. I fancy there’s more to come where that came from.
My contribution to the debate [...]
February 18, 2009
Parents petition for new school
There’s a school place shortage in Surbiton. It’s causing considerable concern to parents with children approaching school age. I have had quite a bit of mail on the subject and visits to ward surgeries.
Now there’s an e-petition from Helen Whately and others, which I’m supporting, together with Nick Kilby.
Please see the link in the article [...]
February 17, 2009
Surbiton Hospital site could become a ‘Community Hub’
Nick Kilby and I, together with other Surbiton Neighbourhood Councillors have met with representatives from the Police, Primary Care Trust (PCT), GP surgeries and the voluntary sector to explore the exciting possibility of delivering a range of community services from the Surbiton Hospital site – ‘a community hub’.
The ‘fact-finding’ event took place on 4 February. [...]
